Scrap-book



(No Model.)

B. G. THORP? SCRAP BOOK.

No. 423,836. Patented Mar. 185 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLIOTT G. THORP, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SCRAP-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 7 Letters Patent No. 423,836, dated March18, 1890. Application filed November 29, 1889. Serial No. 331,954. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELLIOTT G. THORP, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Scrap-Books, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of books which have their leavesattached to stubs and the stubs attached to the back or covers, so thatthe book can lie out flat when opened, and more particularly intendedfor use for scrap-books; and theinvention consists of a book having itsleaves folded either singly or in a series,'each single fold or seriessecured at its fold or folds to the front fold of a separate andindependent section or stub, the several sections or stubs being foldedsubstantially as shown and arranged to lie one within the other for thedesired number of leaves, and the sections or stubs being securedtogether and to the back or covers attheirback folds, all substantiallyas hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying sheets ofdrawings is illustrated the presentinvention.

Figure 1 is a cross-section of a book constructed according to thisinvention without the covers and back; Fig. 2, a detail crosssection online 2 2, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3,a detail cross-section of two of the backsections or stubs opened out and showing their relative positions one toanother more clearly.

' In the drawings, A represents the leaves of a book in sets or series,each series folded respectively at B and secured by stitches O at suchfolds to the stubs or back sections D, each series of leaves to thefront fold of a stub or section D, the stubs or sections being securedtogether and by their back folds to the cord E by stitches F, whichcords are the usual bindingcords of books, and are secured to the backof the book (not shown) in the usual manner of binding books, as is wellknown. The stub-sections in the present instance are each composed oftwo sheets or pieces of paper or suitable sheet material, of the widthof the book desired, to extend across the same, and for the better andclearer illustration of the several stubs and their relation one toanother two of such stubs G H are shown in section. in Fig. 3 as openedout, and

in such figure the sheets of paper for each stub or section are foldedat J, one sheet lying within the other and the two being folded at K bya return-bend, then folded back at L, and back again at M. The necessarynumber of stubs or sections being formed, as described, each folded leafor series of leaves A are then secured by theirfolds B, by the stitchesG, to the frontfold L of its respective stub or section D, and thenanother section or stubfor instance, stub H-is placed by its fold K inbetween the two portions a b of the fold M and secured through theseveral thicknesses of each stub by the stitches F to the cord E. Then athird stub or section is laid by its fold K in between the portions a hof the fold M of the second stub or section and secured, by its stitchesF, to the cord E, and so on to the number of stubs or sections desired,according to the number of leaves or series of leaves for the book. Thenthe fold K of the first section or stub has preferably placed in itsfold a sheet or sheets of paper N, and they are secured with the fold Kto the cord E by stitches P, and in the fold M of the other end or lastsection or stub are secured similar leaves Q to leaves N, which aresecured, through the fold M, to the cord E by the stitches R, when thecord E is secured to the back and covers in the usual manner of bindingbooks.

Securing the leaves or leaf-sections to the front fold of eachstub-section, substantially as described and shown, enables the bookwhen open to lie out perfectly flat, a much desired advantage, and thefolds J of each stub-section secure the necessary fillingpieces to usethe book for a scrap-book. The stub-sections can be of more or lessnumber of sheets of paper or material, as well as the leaves can be ofmore or less number in each series.

The stubs or back sections can be secured to the cord E or to the backor covers in any suitable manner and the leaves to the several stubs, asdesired, otherwise than as herein particularly described and shownwithout departing from this invention, but as herein described and shownis practical and satisfactory.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is sign-Kym? 1. A bookhaving a series of stubs or back sections, each stub or back sectionindependent of the other and each folded and laid one within the other,substantially as shown, and secured. together at their back folds to theback or covers of the book, and each section having secured to its frontfold one or more folded leaves, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

2. A book having a series of stubs or back sections, each stub or backsection independent of the other and each folded and laid one within theother, substantially as shown, and

ELLIOTT G. THORP.

\Vitnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, CARRIE E. NICHOLS.

